The French sales and financing company Wild Bunch is putting together a follow-up to the Selena Gomez-Vanessa Hudgens foray into hedonism and will peddle it at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival market.

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A look at the films that propelled celebrated directors to prominence. By Christy Khoshaba.

A look at the films that propelled celebrated directors to prominence. By Christy Khoshaba. (Los Angeles Times)

After Speilberg's mega-hit "Jaws" (1975), with Robert Shaw and Roy Scheider, he was no longer just a director for hire, but a director who could sit in the main chair of any film he wanted. Speilberg was also credited with beginning the tradition of the summer blockbuster.

After Speilberg's mega-hit "Jaws" (1975), with Robert Shaw and Roy Scheider, he was no longer just a director for hire, but a director who could sit in the main chair of any film he wanted. Speilberg was also credited with beginning the tradition of the summer blockbuster. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times; Universal Pictures)

But some caveats: Korine won't be back as either writer or director -- the film will be directed by music-video veteran Jonas Akerlund from a script by Irvine Welsh. And it's not clear how much of the original cast will return either. The smart money has James Franco, who famously played Alien in the film, sitting this out. Do the gold-toothed rapper-drug dealer thing once and it's meta; try it again and it's silly.

(Wild Bunch co-chief Vincent Maraval said the new movie would feature a combination of new and old cast members. "It's not a direct sequel, although there are allusions to some of the characters in the original," he said.)

And the biggest caveat of all: many Cannes packages don't become movies. If sales thresholds aren't reached and the financing doesn't hit critical mass -- this happens often -- the movie goes away. Ditto if a star of filmmaker -- many of whom before a market attach themselves to more projects than they can or want to do on the assumption that at least a few won't happen -- decides to opt out.

The original "Spring Breakers" was an idiosyncratic mix of art-house filmmaking and gratuitous titillation and violence. It became a cult hit and, somewhat predictably, polarized critics.

Given its notoriety, it's not surprising backers would try to do it again. But don't hold your breath on a movie, let alone a good one. Even a rager of a party can't last forever.

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